The Overnight Website Challenge, an all night event organized by interactive development firm The Nerdery, sees dozens of volunteers form teams of ten web pros that show up not knowing what nonprofit they’ll serve, pro bono, for 24 hours. In the first three years of The Nerdery’s nonprofit nerdathon, volunteers have freely given over a million dollars worth of professional web development services to 39 nonprofit organizations. The Nerdery considers this a good start, but as long as there are good nonprofits with bad (or no) websites we will rally our staff and community to deliver nerdy deeds done dirt-cheap.
Senator Al Franken provided some levity and encouraging remarks
We talk with Mark Hurlburt, VP of Marketing at The Nerdery (wait…marketing nerds? Isn’t that an oxymoron?) and he tells us all about the event. We then chat with Tim Elliott’s team (Full Court WordPress) client non-profit executive director, Ann Kaner-Roth, about her organization Project 515.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
We were delighted to meet and talk with Senator Al Franken (though his remarks were not recorded by us because yours truly forgot to hit the record button on my recorder!) and he kicked off the event with some encouraging words about the importance of the event and the collective energy of the volunteers. He also interspersed it with some humorous remarks which shows he hasn’t lost his comedic touch.
The Podcast
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